I watched the majority of Season 15 of Doctor Who for the first time with its new blu-ray Collection set. I still have several ‘gaps’ of 20th century stories I haven’t seen, almost entirely from the second half of Tom Baker’s era. Having highly enjoyed most of Season 15, I’ve been keen to carry on …
Contemporary viewers had quite a gap between the first and second series of Callan. You Should Have Got Here Sooner had been broadcast in August 1967 but Red Knight, White Knight didn’t appear on screens until January 1969 – despite recording having concluded 6 months earlier in July 1968. This was largely all down to …
To stick with the plot of You Should Have Got Here Sooner, we have to ignore the insane coincidence that Lonely just happened to burgle a flat during the handful of nights that Meres is using it as a safehouse with an escaped spy holed up there. If Lonely can get in, you do worry …
Peter Jones as the Book feels like a wonderful, reassuring presence by now. His calm matter-of-factness and careful explanations are helping to keep me up to speed on everything. This is another episode where we don’t jump straight into our heroes’ action, but instead we get more world-building about the universe that Arthur has started …
Invasion of the Dinosaurs is the last Third Doctor story I hadn’t seen before. I’d owned it for a long time, but the impression I’d gained was of a highly naff production, even accounting for Doctor Who’s usual low budget standards. INVASION I love that Episode One is simply titled ‘Invasion’ and I’m sure that …
Ooh new titles… When I originally watched The Time Warrior, I hadn’t seen any of Sarah Jane Smith’s 1970s’ stories. I’d first seen her in The Five Doctors, and I came away without much impression of her really. There are so many faces there that few of the companions get to shine much besides filling …
I first saw The Green Death on BBC Four in April 2006. BBC Four has never regularly repeated Doctor Who and I can’t recall seeing any other stories there around that time – I’d definitely have checked the TV guide after stumbling across this one. I’d later assumed that this broadcast was part of some …
View 1974 Christmas Radio Times TV Guide Yuletide felicitations to you all! I’ve created this extra special TV listings magazine that pulls together numerous TV programmes from Christmas week 1974, across both the BBC channels and ITV. Opening the PDF version of the magazine, which I’ve named Radio Times TV, will enable you to click on …
Frontier in Space may not have had the cliffhanger I thought I remembered, but it did have a cliffhanger. I’d waited 15 years to find out how Planet of the Daleks continued the story, after UK Gold had been unable to screen it. The VHS was deleted by then and eBay copies were too expensive …
When I watched Frontier in Space the first time around, I was absolutely livid that UK Gold did not then show Planet of the Daleks afterwards. And for years that was my main memory of it – being angry and feeling cheated of the story’s conclusion. I never managed to get around to seeing Planet …
